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The Silk Road: reading list

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Books to read by lamplight after the episode.

The Silk Road: A New History

Valerie Hansen (Oxford University Press, 2012).

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan (Vintage, 2017).

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Life Along the Silk Road

Susan Whitfield (University of California Press, 2nd ed., 2015).

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The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

James A. Millward (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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The Silk Road in World History

Xinru Liu (Oxford University Press, 2010).

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The Travels of Marco Polo

trans. Ronald Latham (Penguin Classics).

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